Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Great events make me quiet and calm it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle.